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The practice of E-commerce involves much more than simply selling products and services online. Developing a good e-commerce website involves maintaining the security and administrative aspects of your website as well. Many people overlook the importance of storage when it comes to choosing a web hosting service provider. Many people make the mistake of relying solely on their hard drive, which eventually will become unable to hold your website’s data.  Aside from running out of space, using a personal hard drive is risky because a crash can occur at any time resulting in data loss. When it involves your business, reliability and security is the most important factor. With all of the possible selections available in today’s market, it can be difficult to choose a single solution.  There are certain things one must consider when selecting a proper web hosting service for their business.

How Much Space Do You Need

Purchasing a new storage device requires the assessment of your storage needs. If you only need to backup a few things, then a simple USB drive will suffice. Even though USB drives do not consume a lot of space, they are capable of holding vast amounts of data and are seen as a good way to backup your data.  If you need to store more then you may want to consider an external hard drive.

Outsourcing Storage Space

If you do not want to store your data on a physical device at your home or office, then you can always opt for virtual storage with a third-party provider.  With a good data hosting service, you will receive the benefit of an online interface that will allow you to easily transfer your files,  and you’ll also receive plenty of bandwidth. Before selecting a third-party data hosting service, make sure they are reputable and take plenty of security measures to help protect your website’s data. The data must be secure during the entire time it is stored on their server to prevent data loss.

Speed Necessity

If you need to transfer a lot of data at one point in time, then speed should most definitely be a determining factor. It is important to consider all of the aspects of the storage provider, including speed, memory and disk space. Normally the best speeds are provided by interfaces such as  IDE, Firewire, SCSI, parallel, and USB. These storage devices are of the plug and play variety and are very easy to use and maintain.

Making the Right Decision

There are plenty of options available concerning storage for your e-commerce website. It is not hard to find  a service that will accommodate your needs, however it is best to make sure you make the right decision initially.

APS is a unique hosting solution that offers some very unique features to the domain owner. APS (Active Server Pages) technology allows the design and creation of an interactive website to be completed via server-side scripting. Examples of interactive websites and/or features would be: forums, blogs, search bars, calendars, newsletters, email, surveys, polls, and hit counters.  Unlike HTML scripting, APS scripting will allow your website to be displayed equally on any web browser. The overall compatibility of APS hosting stems from the fact that the APS server decodes and translates the .aps info into .html info before it is received by the browser. This is the primary reason why it is called APS hosting, as it is more than just a type of scripting. In order to use .aps scripts, your hosting company must have APS servers available.

Finding an APS Web Hosting Service Provider

Even though most web hosts claim to support the majority of scripts out there, this doesn’t mean that they all support ASP scripting. ASP scripting is relatively new so it is important that you find a web hosting company that specializes in this area of expertise. Many times you can find out all you need to know form a companies FAQ page, however if you still have questions it may be best to call their customer support number for further inquiries.

ASP Server Details

ASP servers are Windows based virtual servers, much like  Microsoft’s Personal Web Server. While Windows Vista carries support for ASP servers,  XP Home Edition and Windows ME unfortunately do not support ASP scripts. However if your operating system does not support ASP hosting then it is still possible to take advantages of this kind of hosting, thanks to a program known as “Chili” made by Sun Microsystems. Chili allows users to enjoy the benefits of  ASP hosting even if they are using operating systems like Linux, AIX or Solaris, or even if you are using an incompatible server such as Secure Server, Red Hat, and Apache.

The Ease of Transition to ASP Hosting

ASP scripting is also strikingly similar to HTML scripting, so anyone who is familiar with writing code in HTML will have no problem making the transition to ASP scripting. In fact, ASP hosting is just as easy to learn as HTML, so even if you have no experience in scripting, ASP is still an option for you as long as you have a little bit of motivation and the right guide.  In fact there are many tools available online that will help even the most inexperienced programmers in building interactive web pages for their website. If your web hosting company does not currently offer support for ASP hosting, then you can rest assured that they will within the next few years, possibly even months. Due to it’s seemingly unlimited compatibility with web browsers, ASP hosting is quickly becoming the industry standard in web hosting. Switching to an ASP hosting service as soon as possible will ensure that your website is viewable to more users, and more enjoyable to your visitors.

Parksville, British Columbia – (The Hosting News) – September 30, 2009 – New reseller and dedicated web hosting packages for Canadian and U.S. clients have been launched by web hosting service provider, Hosting Nation.

Sean Enns, Director of Marketing and Communications at Hosting Nation explained, ”We already offer a lot of extra resources in our shared hosting plans. The reseller and dedicated environments are natural extensions of products and services we already provide.”

Users receive WHM and cPanel, as well as the Fantastico DeLuxe and Installatron software installers. Hosting Nation has also added custom resources, such as simple installations of development frameworks like jQuery and Blueprint CSS and the R1Soft Continuous Data Protection. The basic reseller plan from Hosting Nation includes 25 GB of disk space and 250 GB of bandwidth for only $19.95 per month. View all reseller hosting plans from Hosting Nation

Dedicated severs are either dual or quad core Xeon servers with a minimum of 2 GB of Ram and 2000 GB of disk space. Dedicated servers from Hosting Nation start at $259 per month. View all dedicated server plans from Hosting Nation

Hosting Nation is a privately owned web hosting and web service provider headquartered in beautiful Parksville, British Columbia. Hosting Nation is committed to providing their citizens with best in class web hosting technology, software and support by drawing on over 50 combined years of experience in server management, web design, programming, project management and internet marketing.

To learn more, please visit: www.hosting-nation.com.

Parksville, British Columbia – (The Hosting News) – September 30, 2009 – New reseller and dedicated web hosting packages for Canadian and U.S. clients have been launched by web hosting service provider, Hosting Nation.

Sean Enns, Director of Marketing and Communications at Hosting Nation explained, ”We already offer a lot of extra resources in our shared hosting plans. The reseller and dedicated environments are natural extensions of products and services we already provide.”

Users receive WHM and cPanel, as well as the Fantastico DeLuxe and Installatron software installers. Hosting Nation has also added custom resources, such as simple installations of development frameworks like jQuery and Blueprint CSS and the R1Soft Continuous Data Protection. The basic reseller plan from Hosting Nation includes 25 GB of disk space and 250 GB of bandwidth for only $19.95 per month. View all reseller hosting plans from Hosting Nation

Dedicated severs are either dual or quad core Xeon servers with a minimum of 2 GB of Ram and 2000 GB of disk space. Dedicated servers from Hosting Nation start at $259 per month. View all dedicated server plans from Hosting Nation

Hosting Nation is a privately owned web hosting and web service provider headquartered in beautiful Parksville, British Columbia. Hosting Nation is committed to providing their citizens with best in class web hosting technology, software and support by drawing on over 50 combined years of experience in server management, web design, programming, project management and internet marketing.

To learn more, please visit: www.hosting-nation.com.

Ann Arbor, Michigan – (The Hosting News) – September 1, 2009 – Web hosting service provider and Magento hosting solutions company, NEXCESS.NET LLC, will be expanding its Magento Secure Isolated Platform (SIP) e-commerce web hosting plans.

The original SIP plans, launched in May 2009, are a tightly integrated combination of the popular Magento e-commerce software, combined with optimized high-end hardware and software to guarantee speed, reliability and security.

Chris Wells, CEO of Nexcess noted, ”The SIP plans have really taken off. They’re popular with both small and large clients, including Fortune 500 companies which we’ve signed deals with in the last few weeks. Even the official Magento demo stores have been moved to SIPs.”

The new reseller plan will allow interested customers to resell Magento SIP plans. Mr. Wells added, ”We’ve been offering shared hosting reseller plans for years now, and these are essentially the same blueprint, except with the Magento SIP architecture.”

Each SIP reseller plan provides the reseller with five separate SIPs (approximately the same as a SIP100) at a discounted price. The reseller can then offer these SIP plans to their own clients.

Mr. Wells continued, ”Regular reseller plans are often a popular way for individuals or small companies to offer their own web hosting services to their clients. Perhaps they’re a web design business that wants to be able to offer their clients web hosting as well. We expect that SIPs will appeal to a very similar kind of customer, someone who wants to be able to offer their clients a professionally hosted, extremely secure and stable e-commerce platform.”

Final details of the new SIP reseller plan are available on the website. Nexcess plans to begin offering a standardized SIP plan based around the Magento Enterprise platform within the next month. Full details of all the Magento SIP plans are available on the NEXCESS.NET site.

NEXCESS.NET is an Ann Arbor, Mich. based company specializing in web hosting solutions, offering a range of services from shared hosting to multi-server configurations. NEXCESS.NET provides custom hosting solutions for traffic heavy and high profile websites of all genres. NEXCESS.NET owns and operates its own private data center in Dearborn, Mich. and currently services thousands of clients worldwide.

To learn more, please visit: http://nexcess.net.

Ann Arbor, Michigan – (The Hosting News) – September 1, 2009 – Web hosting service provider and Magento hosting solutions company, NEXCESS.NET LLC, will be expanding its Magento Secure Isolated Platform (SIP) e-commerce web hosting plans.

The original SIP plans, launched in May 2009, are a tightly integrated combination of the popular Magento e-commerce software, combined with optimized high-end hardware and software to guarantee speed, reliability and security.

Chris Wells, CEO of Nexcess noted, ”The SIP plans have really taken off. They’re popular with both small and large clients, including Fortune 500 companies which we’ve signed deals with in the last few weeks. Even the official Magento demo stores have been moved to SIPs.”

The new reseller plan will allow interested customers to resell Magento SIP plans. Mr. Wells added, ”We’ve been offering shared hosting reseller plans for years now, and these are essentially the same blueprint, except with the Magento SIP architecture.”

Each SIP reseller plan provides the reseller with five separate SIPs (approximately the same as a SIP100) at a discounted price. The reseller can then offer these SIP plans to their own clients.

Mr. Wells continued, ”Regular reseller plans are often a popular way for individuals or small companies to offer their own web hosting services to their clients. Perhaps they’re a web design business that wants to be able to offer their clients web hosting as well. We expect that SIPs will appeal to a very similar kind of customer, someone who wants to be able to offer their clients a professionally hosted, extremely secure and stable e-commerce platform.”

Final details of the new SIP reseller plan are available on the website. Nexcess plans to begin offering a standardized SIP plan based around the Magento Enterprise platform within the next month. Full details of all the Magento SIP plans are available on the NEXCESS.NET site.

NEXCESS.NET is an Ann Arbor, Mich. based company specializing in web hosting solutions, offering a range of services from shared hosting to multi-server configurations. NEXCESS.NET provides custom hosting solutions for traffic heavy and high profile websites of all genres. NEXCESS.NET owns and operates its own private data center in Dearborn, Mich. and currently services thousands of clients worldwide.

To learn more, please visit: http://nexcess.net.

Ann Arbor, Michigan – (The Hosting News) – July 1, 2009 – Web hosting service provider and Magento hosting solutions company, NEXCESS.NET has indicated that since the launch of its new Magento SIP hosting plans, which debuted in May, they have become their fastest-selling hosting plan.

Chris Wells, CEO of Nexcess remarked, ”We’ve been really gratified with the feedback. We were sure we’d put together a winning package geared specifically towards clients who were interested in running Magento-based online stores and were happy to see that we’d hit the mark. The popularity of the plans has necessitated adding new SIP servers faster than anticipated. We actually had to scramble a bit at first to keep up with the demand – but we keep plenty of extra hardware at our data center both for SIPs and all our other hosting plans, so there were no fulfillment problems.”

Mr. Wells added, ”Magento is a complex piece of software, and we’ve put a lot of effort into figuring out how to make it run optimally. A lot of our competitors try to run Magento as if it were just another piece of web software. It clearly needs a specialized environment to provide the performance level e-commerce sites require. Customers can really tell a difference when they move to a SIP from a generic one-size-fits-all solution.”

The Magento SIP (Secure Isolated Platform) plans consist of carefully chosen software and hardware which have been extensively tested and optimized to run the Magento e-commerce software as securely and efficiently as possible. The plans have proved popular because they include everything needed to get a Magento web store up and running smoothly, according to Wells.

Nexcess will be expanding their Magento SIP plans in the near future to include the recently released Enterprise edition of the Magento software, and will also offer SIP plans that use load-balanced clusters for very high traffic hosting scenarios.

Mr. Wells concluded, ”We were the first Magento Enterprise hosting partner, and can offer customized hosting packages using the Enterprise software. We’ll be updating our offerings to include Magento Enterprise Edition SIPs very soon.”

NEXCESS.NET is an Ann Arbor, Mich. based company specializing in web hosting solutions, offering a range of services from shared hosting to complex multi-server configurations. NEXCESS.NET provides custom hosting solutions for traffic heavy and high profile websites of all genres. NEXCESS.NET owns and operates its private data center in Dearborn, Michigan and currently services thousands of clients worldwide.

To learn more, please visit: www.nexcess.net/magento.

Ann Arbor, Michigan – (The Hosting News) – July 1, 2009 – Web hosting service provider and Magento hosting solutions company, NEXCESS.NET has indicated that since the launch of its new Magento SIP hosting plans, which debuted in May, they have become their fastest-selling hosting plan.

Chris Wells, CEO of Nexcess remarked, ”We’ve been really gratified with the feedback. We were sure we’d put together a winning package geared specifically towards clients who were interested in running Magento-based online stores and were happy to see that we’d hit the mark. The popularity of the plans has necessitated adding new SIP servers faster than anticipated. We actually had to scramble a bit at first to keep up with the demand – but we keep plenty of extra hardware at our data center both for SIPs and all our other hosting plans, so there were no fulfillment problems.”

Mr. Wells added, ”Magento is a complex piece of software, and we’ve put a lot of effort into figuring out how to make it run optimally. A lot of our competitors try to run Magento as if it were just another piece of web software. It clearly needs a specialized environment to provide the performance level e-commerce sites require. Customers can really tell a difference when they move to a SIP from a generic one-size-fits-all solution.”

The Magento SIP (Secure Isolated Platform) plans consist of carefully chosen software and hardware which have been extensively tested and optimized to run the Magento e-commerce software as securely and efficiently as possible. The plans have proved popular because they include everything needed to get a Magento web store up and running smoothly, according to Wells.

Nexcess will be expanding their Magento SIP plans in the near future to include the recently released Enterprise edition of the Magento software, and will also offer SIP plans that use load-balanced clusters for very high traffic hosting scenarios.

Mr. Wells concluded, ”We were the first Magento Enterprise hosting partner, and can offer customized hosting packages using the Enterprise software. We’ll be updating our offerings to include Magento Enterprise Edition SIPs very soon.”

NEXCESS.NET is an Ann Arbor, Mich. based company specializing in web hosting solutions, offering a range of services from shared hosting to complex multi-server configurations. NEXCESS.NET provides custom hosting solutions for traffic heavy and high profile websites of all genres. NEXCESS.NET owns and operates its private data center in Dearborn, Michigan and currently services thousands of clients worldwide.

To learn more, please visit: www.nexcess.net/magento.

Although the data center industry has seen tremendous growth over the last few years, organizations are still faced with the overwhelming need to manage surplus data while having continuous access to real-time information and meet the increasing demands of the mobile force within corporate enterprises.  These topics and more will be discovered this week in the Middle East.

eHosting DataFort, managed IT hosting solutions and advisory services provider, will represent the data center industry as a sponsor for the first ever Data Centre Strategies Middle East Forum.  The event will be held from June 2 through June 3, 2009 in Abu Dhabi and is slated to address several issues related to the sectors behind development processes that affect the business, operation and planning aspects in the data center industry.

Featuring a who’s who lineup of international experts, delegates and speakers from leading organizations as well as owners, operations, investors and vendors, Data Centre Strategies Middle East Forum 2009 will see eHosting DataFort delivering critical insight on the state of the data center industry in the Middle East.  The company will particularly highlight on its expertise in providing managed data center solutions to its enterprise customers as well as clients in the telecom, government, semi-government and other critical sectors in the industry.

eHosting DataFort CEO Yasser Zeineldin, is slated to address the forum and also take part in the CEO Data Centre Middle East Roundtable.  He will discuss a variety of topical issues with senior representatives, touching on the growth, challenges, opportunities and outlook of data centers in the Middle East.  Zeineldin says the company is happy to be sponsoring the Data Centre Strategies Middle Forum 2009 and bring a wealth of industry leaders to the region.  As the leading managed hosting service provider in the Middle East, eHosting DataFort is looking forward to bringing together major executives from enterprises, government and various other instrumental sectors.

Philip Low, BroadGroup Managing Director, consulting firm and organizer of the forum, says that members of the forum welcome eHosting Datafort’s sponsorship, stating that Yasser Zeindeldin’s presence in the Data Centre Middle East CEO Roundtable will be a valuable experience.  According to Low, the active participation eHosting Datafort and other major players in the region providing content and insight in a rich networking environment encompasses the true value of the entire event.

About eHosting DataFort

A wholly owned subsidiary of TECOM Investments, eHosting DataFort is a leading IT management and advisory service provider.  With state of the art data centers, a highly reliable, scalable infrastructure and around the clock fully managed operations, the company leverages a wide range of network technologies and partners located in the GCC and MENA regions, North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.  A number of ISO certifications based on the best international standards and global practices enables the organization to deliver managed IT solutions to some of the world’s largest organizations.  eHosting Dataa has garnered several notable projects with clients that include, Arcelor Mittal, Emirates Airlines, British Telecom, Panasonic, Khaleej Times, Arab Bank, the Dubai Financial Market and the Dubai e-government among others.

Nova Scotia, Canada – (The Hosting News) – May 29, 2009 – Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, is offering new products designed to demonstrate high value to customers, when added to a hosting service provider’s website. In addition, DemoWolf has also released two new series of Voice Tutorials for PhotoShop.

Rob Moore, president of DemoWolf explained, ”In these troubled economic times, many businesses are scrambling for whatever business they can find. Gone are the days when customers just came to your place of business and bought with little to no effort on your part. It is therefore more important than ever that you provide your customers with as much quality service as you possibly can, and that means going that extra mile to ensure your customers continue to stay loyal. If you don’t, you may find they’ll start looking elsewhere for perhaps a better deal… because there are companies out there who will give them just that.”

Until May 31, 2009 all tutorials are marked down by 50%, with even better savings by choosing a Savings Bundle. TNOTE: If any of the listed bundles don’t exactly match the tutorials you’re looking for, you can always substitute some tutorial series for others, as long as the price of switched tutorials is the same. Or, we will create a custom bundle just for you! Contact us for details.

Display Options – ”Demo Pages” are the newest product. Instead of spending hours building links to new tutorials, a ”Demo Page” can be created for you with all your links pre-built. Every tutorial ordered would be listed and hyperlinked to the location in your hosting account where they are uploaded. If you order the Gold Bundle for example, that includes over 400 tutorials that you would otherwise have to create links for, yourself. DemoWolf can take care of that for you. In addition, DemoWolf has 3 versions of Demo Pages available: a simple hyperlinks page, a ”Floatbox” option and a ”Nested Floatbox” option. You can view examples of each of these at www.demowolf.com/display-options.php. For an order of $150 or more of new tutorials, you can choose the Demo Page option of your choice for free. This offer is available through May 31, 2009.

PhotoShop ”Designer” VOICE series (11 tutorials) is offered for the SALE Price: $59.95 (Regular Price $119.95), PhotoShop ”Photo” VOICE series (20 tutorials) Regular Price $199.95, SALE Price: $99.95. This now completes the PhotoShop series, as DemoWolf had developed a ”Basic” series a couple months ago: PhotoShop ”Basic” VOICE series (32 tutorials) Regular Price $239.95, SALE Price: $119.95.

All tutorials (including these new ones, and all 3,000+ other ones) can be viewed from the Hosting Tutorials page at: www.demowolf.com/pricing.php, and are available in voice and non-voice versions. When purchased, these tutorials will be branded with your own company logo in the first and last frame of every tutorial. It is anticipated that adding DemoWolf support tutorials to your website will greatly reduce your support costs, as customers will be able to get the help they need themselves instead of calling you. They will also serve as an added benefit service for customers. In the next few days, DemoWolf will be releasing several new tutorials in Spanish and French versions, followed by additional new tutorials next month.

Several weeks ago DemoWolf launched its new ”Hosting Partner Program” and it’s starting to gain traction. This new program allows established hosting companies to offer DemoWolf tutorials to their customers without having to place an order with us each time you get an order for tutorials. Simply pass a ”tutorial request” on to us, and we’ll fill the order directly to your customer.

As always, if you have any custom requirements that involve more than just replacing the logo in the first and last frame of the tutorials – perhaps you want full custom tutorials for your own particular software application or website, DemoWolf can help. DemoWolf builds tutorials with or without voice audio, text boxes, background music, interactivity, and they can be screenshot type tutorials, presentations, demonstrations, slideshows, or any combination of these.

DemoWolf is the largest Flash tutorial provider in the hosting industry, offering over 3,000 flash tutorials for hosting companies, including 1,200+ voice tutorials (flash tutorials that include voice audio narration). DemoWolf is also the fastest growing tutorials provider, adding 200+ new tutorials every month. DemoWolf has tutorials available for Parallels Plesk, cPanel, Helm, H-Sphere, DotNetPanel, Virtuozzo, Direct Admin, Email and FTP applications, Domain Registrars, Private Nameservers, phpMyAdmin, WordPress and many more. For more information, you may contact DemoWolf by visiting their website or by calling toll free 1-866-905-4678.

For more information about the Hosting Partner Program, and to learn about the various levels available, please visit: www.demowolf.com/hosting-partner-program.php.

To learn more about savings bundles, please visit: www.demowolf.com/bundle-and-save.php.

For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.